AEROSPACE

Northrop Grumman Plans More B-2 Cuts: The aerospace company said about 2,000 more jobs related to the Stealth bomber will be eliminated in Pico Rivera and Palmdale next year as the company’s contract to build 20 of the $2-billion aircraft winds down. Northrop Grumman, which disclosed the figures in an employee newsletter, also said B-2 job cuts this year will reach about 1,600 instead the 1,300 originally forecast. By 1996, its B-2 work force--which peaked at 13,172 in 1992--will drop to about 8,000. The company has already said the Pico Rivera plant will close in the late 1990s unless more of the planes are ordered.